Sentences with phrase «upon grace»

A way built upon grace, love, and forgiveness.

The Church should never think of itself as possessing grace, but as participating in it, and that participation is above all dependence upon grace as forgiveness.

Niebuhr grouped sectarian Protestantism with the Renaissance because it shared the Renaissance emphasis upon grace as Power in man, the impulse toward the completion of life.

I bless you with the goodness that comes from quietly waiting upon His grace, His daily saving grace, His mighty deliverance!

The same avenue that is available to us today: falling completely and solely upon the grace of God.

The Church affirms that human beings are by nature suited to contract marriage, and she teaches that Christian couples can call upon the graces of the sacrament of Matrimony in living out the marriages they contract.

We'll first touch upon the graces that God communicates through marriage but only very briefly because this will be developed in a more personal way in some of the other talks.

As much as we can discuss and try to alleviate both familial and societal woes, we are ultimately reliant upon grace, whether we're from a picture - perfect family or a broken one.

McGrath cheers, inter alia, the Catechism's uncompromising insistence upon the grace of God as the sole source of salvation and upon the centrality of Christ in the Christian life, but he is troubled that the Catechism does not explicitly or in detail address the controversies between Rome and the Reformation in the sixteenth century.

Grace upon grace unto you.

Over the years, I have relied upon the grace of God (sometimes embodied in the listening ears of empathetic friends) to help me restrain myself and to transform my desire for violence into a tender embrace of my son.

And after pondering briefly, gratitude welled up in me for three years of Hubs in grad school nearly over, a beautiful fall, and grace upon grace throughout this pregnancy and especially this semester.

From his fullness [remember, the Word is of God and bears, not part of God, not just his breath, which conveys the spoken word, but all of God, all of his wholeness, his pleroma] we have all received grace upon grace..

When we are Christians, we must depend upon the grace of God, not upon the works of the law.

Hence the act of baptism with its promise of cleansing and renewal affirms for the community its dependence upon grace.

The New Testament emphasis is upon grace as forgiveness, but never as a substitute for repentance in its ethical dimensions.

Too many, misunderstanding the nature of faith and presuming upon the grace of God, disregard the commandments of God.

John 1:16,17 «16 For of His fullness we have all received, and grace upon grace.

Wilderness and exile are never the final word; in fact, the final word in Jesus is grace upon grace.

When he further describes Jesus» impact, he says that «from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace.»

In the first chapter John speaks about Jesus as the Word from whose fullness we have all received grace upon grace.

Grace upon Grace!

And the Word (the Mind who is God) became Flesh and dwelt among us... and of his fullness we have all received, and grace upon grace».

«From his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace» (v. 16.).

Resurrection Sunday is definitely a day to celebrate grace upon grace.

I like to call this tip «grace upon grace.»